Cloying vs Mawkish - What's the difference?
cloying | mawkish |
Unpleasantly excessive.
* August 16 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
Excessively sweet.
Feeling sick, queasy.
(archaic) Sickening or insipid in taste or smell.
Excessively or falsely sentimental; showing a sickly excess of sentiment.
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As adjectives the difference between cloying and mawkish
is that cloying is unpleasantly excessive while mawkish is feeling sick, queasy.As a verb cloying
is present participle of lang=en.cloying
English
Verb
(head)Adjective
(en adjective)- The cloying fondness she displayed was what, in the end, drove me away.
Swansea upstage Manchester United in Louis van Gaal’s Premier League bow," guardian.co.uk :
- It was a cloying sense of deja vu attached to the team that finished seventh last season, 22 points off the top and drastically in need of some more dynamism.
Synonyms
* (unpleasantly excessive) exaggerated * (excessively sweet) syrupy, treaclyDerived terms
* cloyinglymawkish
English
Alternative forms
* maukish (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide," New York Times
- Some of Mr. Williams’s performances were criticized for a mawkish sentimentality, like “Patch Adams,” a 1998 film that once again cast him as a good-hearted doctor, and “Bicentennial Man,” a 1999 science-fiction feature in which he played an android.